Green Living: Try these winter tips for nonstop composting

10:53 PM,
Mar. 2, 2013

Written by

Tom O?Dowd

Spring keeps peeking her head around the corner and getting blown back by Old Man Winter. But she's coming soon and your backyard/school garden needs to be ready. The health of your soil should be your number one concern, and giving your garden the gift of compost can do the trick - and cut down "waste" going to landfills.

But what about winter? Winter is cold, right? And all the mini- and micro-organisms in your compost pile slow down when it's cold, right? Right, but there are several solutions to keeping those sleepy bacteria you need to make excellent compost awake.